Last December, writers Kyle Humphrey and Graydon Sheppard posted a video to youtube entitled “Shit Girls say”. Graydon Sheppard, clad in women’s attire, ventured to enact the body language, expression and phrases used by of a good majority of the female population. The final result is a hilarious, arguably (and embarrassingly) accurate portrayal of the stereotypical American “white girl”. Like, seriously.

The video caught fire. Thousands of comments rolled in from girls across the nation exclaiming, “that totally sounds like me”, “omg so right!”, and “nailed ittttt”. Now, the video has over 10 million views. Over the following 4 weeks, parody after parody surfaced. We now have “Shit New Age Girls Say”, “Shit Yogis Say”, “Shit Gay Guys Say”, “Shit Black Girls Say”, “Shit White Girls Say to Black Girls” and even “Shit Nobody Says”.

And I’m drinking the Kool-Aid.

As much as we’d like to deny it, lyme disease has almost become a culture of its own. Not only are patients required to alter their entire lifestyle when diagnosed, but they often choose to ban together and change their facebook photo to include a green awareness ribbon, post lyme-related informational links perhaps one too many times per day, and construct quite creative status updates about their ailments and pains.

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Candice

Candice is a 20-something Californian who loves words, photographs, board games, and a good episode of Grey's Anatomy. Typical, right? Well, unfortunately, her life is less than "typical" these days, due to her ongoing battle with late stage lyme disease and all that it entails. Her blog Infectious Optimism chronicles her journey with Late Stage Lyme, Dysautonomia, Chemical Sensitivity, and the rest of the trimmings. Lyme disease may be infectious, but so is optimism, and we all need a little optimism to get by.

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